Doctor Adelma Hills

I have been a university lecturer in psychology since 1991, coming to it a little later in life after careers first in accounting, then later in acting. Diversity is good, so they say, and my psychology career has been well served by this diversity. Scholarly interests have revolved around nonrational processes (emotion and motivation, values and meaning) particularly as applied to our relationship with the natural world, and also to aspects of moral reasoning. Perhaps my most compelling interest is in consciousness, but it is so hard to study. Recent research with my PhD student, looking at meditation and directed attention fatigue, has started me nibbling around the edges of consciousness.

My teaching area is much more mundane: research methods and statistics, although this is well suited to e-learning for which I have great enthusiasm.

In recent years most of my energy has been directed toward School administration as Associate Head of School (Academic), and currently as Deputy Dean.

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